Psammotropha diffusa Adamson

A lax diffuse or decumbent glabrous shrublet. Stems 10-30 cm high with ascending branches, the older woody, the younger brown, ridged, with internodes as long as or longer than the leaves. Leaves linear, 3-6 mm long, flat or concave above, acute or subacute, with a very short hair-like point. Stipules 1-1.5 mm long, the lower part brown ovate or rotund, the upper white, linear, acuminate, the base adnate to the leaf-base and very shortly laciniate. Flowers in a terminal subumbellate group of 3-12, the branches up to 0.7 cm long. Peduncles with stipule-like bracts, the ultimate 1-3 mm long. Perianth segments 1 mm long, incurved, green with a narrow white edge. Stamens on a small disc. Ovary 3-angled, rarely 2; style short, 3-fid at the top. Fruit rounded, brown, shorter than the perianth.